Wiki143:WikiProject Poland

WikiProject Poland / Poland-related Wikipedia notice board This project is designed to gather Wikipedians interested in Poland-related content, tools designed to help them, and offer a centralized place for relevant announcements and discussions. If that sounds useful or fun, please watchlist this page and add your name to the participants list below. This project prefers the English language. Please see the talk page for the noticeboard and ongoing discussions. RWNBs This noticeboard is a member of the Wikipedia:Eastern European Wikipedians' notice board See the complete list of other regional notice boards Our articles We take care of the tens of thousands of articles, about 88,000 at last count – that's close to 2% of all articles on the English Wikipedia! Here is a breakdown by quality and importance: {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Poland articles by quality statistics}} {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Polish military history articles by quality statistics}} You are welcome to add more articles we missed to our project, and assess them. See #Templates for how to add articles to that list, Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Assessment for information on assessment, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Reviews for current requests for a B-class review. High quality This is a list of our Featured, Good, DYK and ITN content. Template:Collapse top {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Recognized content}} Template:Collapse bottom Most popular Most popular (number of visits) Poland-related articles are here. Our Portal You can visit our Portal:Poland. Tools Naming conventions For guidelines on article naming and style, see the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Poland-related articles) page (shortcut WP:MOSPOL). Image copyright guide If you want to upload a possibly public-domain Polish image, see here for a guide on what is in the public domain, and which license templates to use. Articles in need of improvement Template:WikiProject cleanup listing Articles tagged with various issues are listed in a sortable list at here (the on-wiki listing is no longer actively maintained). As of December 2010, 12570 or 18.7% were marked for cleanup. As of September 2012 that grew to 14790 or 20.3 % of (the also growing) total. A frequently updated list of unreferenced biographies of living persons is here. As of September 2011, we have eliminated the backlog there, and as of September 2012, the list usually has between 0 to 2 articles. Adding referencing to living person bios is one of Wikipedia's priorities. Article alerts Generic Poland-related Polish military history Deletions While deletions should also be available in the article news feed, you can also check and watchlist this dedicated page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland New articles announcements Newly created Poland-related articles are announced here (that page can be watchlisted). Click here for archival entries Templates Template:WikiProject Poland (short: Template:Tl, full syntax: {{WikiProject Poland|class=|importance=}}) is our assessment template. Please add it to the talk pages of all Poland-related articles, it is a key template that enables the article to be included in our article news, popularity ranking, project watchlist deletion discussion notifications the nifty quality and importance tables we have at the top of this page and other tools. Template:Tl creates a citation with a link to the GUS/TERYT website, as well as instructions in English of how to perform a search Use Template:Tl for Polish words or phrases, thus: {{lang|pl|Gmina Świnice Warckie}} will produce The Template:Tl template can be used to produce representations of Polish pronunciation. When marking sources in Polish language, use Template:Tl to produce Template:In lang There is also a Portal:Poland/Welcome message box that can be used to notify new users about this noticeboard and our related projects. Just slap {{subst:Portal:Poland/Welcome}}--~~~~ on their usertalkpage – it has its own heading. use Template:Tl to link Polish language wikiquote pages (often found on Polish Wikipedia articles). The full syntax is {{wikiquotelang|pl|article name|article name}} (yes, it seems you need to use the article's name twice), for example {{wikiquotelang|pl|Stanisław Koniecpolski|Stanisław Koniecpolski}} use Template:Tl just like Wikiquotelang above but for linking to Polish Wikisource articles. Various other, less used templates are listed at Category:Poland templates Userboxes Please note we have three functioning userboxes: Template:User WP Poland Use: Template:Tl Template:User WP:Poland Use: Template:Tl REDIRECT Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Members/User WPMILHIST Polish military history task force Use: Template:Tl You may also want to check the following userboxes: Template:Template other Use: Template:Tl Template:User Polish Ancestry Use: Template:Tl User:Piotrus/PolandInterest Use: {{User:Piotrus/PolandInterest}} User:Samotny Wędrowiec/Userboxes/Polish vodka Use: {{User:Samotny Wędrowiec/Userboxes/Polish vodka}} You can also declare your knowledge of the Polish language with the WP:BABEL templates, such as: Template:Userbox-level Use: Template:Tl For non-native speakers of Polish, just use User pl-1 (beginner) to pl-5 (professional) Awards In the spirit of kindness and recognition we strongly encourage the use of the following barnstars, awards and assorted goodies: Image What to type Description Ribbon The Barnstar of National Merit Template:Tlsp The Barnstar of National Merit The Barnstar of National Merit may be awarded to an editor who contributes significantly to expand or improve Wikipedia's coverage of any given country. It may also be awarded to those who create a particularly fine article on the subject of Geography. File:BoNM rib.png The Poland Barnstar Template:Tlsp The Poland Barnstar is an award placed on another user's talk page for improving Poland-related articles. The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 1st Class Template:Tlsp The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 1st Class The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 1st Class is a specific variant of the Barnstar of National Merit, which may be awarded to editors who contributed significantly to expanding or improving Wikipedia's coverage of Poland. The 1st Class award should be used for very significant contributions (for example, getting an article to FA level). In most cases, the 2nd Class (below) will be sufficient. As a rule of thumb, somebody should have already received a 2nd Class award before being eligible for the 1st Class. File:BoNM - Poland rib (bronze star).png The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 2nd Class Template:Tlsp The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 2nd Class The Polish Barnstar of National Merit, 2nd Class is a specific variant of Barnstar of National Merit, which may be awarded to editors who contributed significantly to expand or improve Wikipedia's coverage of Poland. The 2nd Class can be given for various reasons, but if the contributor has done something really significant, and has already received this award, consider giving him or her a 1st Class award (above). File:BoNM-Poland-ribbon-grade2.png The Rosetta Barnstar Template:Tlsp The Rosetta Barnstar The Rosetta Barnstar may be given to any editor who exhibits outstanding translation efforts on Wikipedia. In the case of the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board, of course, translations to or from the Polish language are most relevant. File:Rosetta Ribbon.png For contributions related to Polish history during WWII For contributions related to Polish history during WWII For contributions related to interwar Polish history For contributions related to interwar Polish history See also pl:Wikipedia:Odznaczenia Wikipedii for other awards designed on Polish Wikipedia! We also encourage the use of other awards for non-Poland specific contributions to Wikipedia! Other tools Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Poland – the top edits to articles that have talk pages transcluding As part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies project, we have the list of Poles from the Polish Biographical Dictionary. Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/Polish – WikiProject Intertranswiki Polish, a collaborative effort to improve English Wikipedia by importing and translating content from Polish Wikipedia Newsletter Are they stubs? Articles in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Stub-class without stub tags and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Stub-tagged but not stub-class need reviewing Are they B-class? We are providing small reviews for all B-class articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Reviews for outstanding review requests. Check Category:Poland articles with an incomplete B-Class checklist for an article missing a review, assess whether it is a B-class or not, and leave a note on its talk page. It is quite simple, see an example. Polish Wikipedia has a guide on the notability of the Polish noble families Historical (no longer actively maintained): Polish Collaboration of the Week The Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/to do Participants list {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Members}} Related WikiProjects Active: Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries (parent) Wikipedia:WikiProject Eastern Europe (region) Semi-active: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Polish military history task force (military history) Former: Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland (history; inactive) Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography of Poland (geography; inactive) Wikipedia:WikiProject European history/Polish history task force (history)